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The Moxon Rectangle on 2 Meters - We often think of the Moxon rectangle as strictly an HF antenna. However, its small size and special far field pattern lend themselves to some VHF applications. So let's see how to adapt the design to 2 meters (as a popular band choice) and also see a few of the uses to which we may effectively put the design.

160 meter full wave loop antenna  ^pop - The antenna is a 10 - 160 meter horizontal loop fed with 450 ohm ladder line all the way into the ham shack to an Palstar AT1500BAL balanced line antenna tuner

Broadband receiving antenna matching - This article addresses the subject of obtaining the best signal transfer from an antenna to the typical 50-ohm receiver input over a wide frequency range, with emphasis on medium-wave (500 – 2000 kHz), encompassing the standard AM broadcast band and the 160-m amateur band.

Antenna basics  ^pop - Basics by From Ian C. Purdie, VK2TIP

The gain of aerials: the myths explained - In the long history of beam aerials there has persistently existed the claim that certain types of aerials perform better than yagis.

The Antron 99 exposed!  ^pop - Have you ever wondered what was inside the Antron 99 antenna?

Short Dipoles  ^pop - Short dipoles and verticals for 160 80 and 40 meters

JustRadios, Capacitors for Antique Radios - "Sells high voltage film and electrolytic capacitors for antique tube radios. Carries 630 volt metal-film, metallized and mylar film capacitors as well as electrolytics. Also has ""capacitor"" tips for antique radio restorations."

ON7SA - UBA section AST - Clubstation of Belgian UBA section AST. AST stands for Aalst, the city where we're located. We participate in many international contests with our special contestcall OTxH. The x in the call is always the last letter of the current year.

Three Rivers Radio Club - 10 meter SSB club, Free lifetime membership. We are in the St. louis area, but we also welcome hams from the whole USA.

SPARC - SPARC club offer live repeater audio streaming from West Haven, CT USA. EchoIRLP link also available.

University of Hawaii Radio Astronomy - Online receiver streams signals from Jupiter and the sun

Radio Meteors-NASA Alabama - Icom PCR 1000 at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center monitoring meteor signals on 67.3 mhz.live.

PicoScope - Pico Technology have developed a wide range of professional PC-based instruments that offer all the functionality of conventional test equipment (DSO - digital storage oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, meter), and also many features not normally available in this price range. Available functios are Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyser, XY Scope, Meter and Measurements

Luxorion ON4SKY website - Thierry LOMBRY, ON4SKY has developped a educational website mainly devoted to amateur astronomy but it includes also a large section dealing with amateur radio activities includes several interesting pages about radio astronomy and SETI

MoonBounce (EME) & Weak Signals - Amateur Radio operation and weak signal detection pages by AF9Y

IonoProbe - Monitors the space weather parameters essential for HF radio, including SSN/SFI, Ap/Kp, X-ray/Proton flux, and Auroral activity. IonoProbe downloads near-real time satellite and ground station data, stores information for future use and displays it in a user-friendly way.

ManualMan - Now over 10,000 manuals for amateur, audio, and radio-related equipment available

Mediangraphics Priority listing - Qsl cards printing service, offers also internet services

MJ Products - Wholesale distributor of CB radios, parts, antennas, microphones, power supplies, crystals, echo boards, expanders, meters and CB accessories.

CQ Log - CQLog is a powerful logging program for Windows. It provides a comprehensive control centre for everyday on-the-air activities, including: full-featured logging of QSOs; statistics for many awards (for LoTW and eQSL capability); support for QRZ, RAC, GOLIST databases. You can save up to 3 pictures for each SSTV-QSO. Two-way data exchange with MixW2, and DigiPan. Integrates with DX Atlas. Real-time upload of QSOs to eQSL.cc. The program also offers a "contest-mode"; supports CAT systems for YAESU, ICOM, KENWOOD, Ten-Tec. Prints QSL cards, and QSL labels, addresses envelopes.

59+ CW  ^pop - Freeware Win32 application can be used for sending CW signal to the transceiver over a COM port or simply listening to Morse code on the speaker. The application is very easy to configure and will allow you to you to add new Morse characters set speed, tone, dash, dot, PTT line delay and other parameters. It is also possible to set shortcuts for call, QTH, name, RST and ANY other QSO field.

TK8500 - open source software designed to control and program the ICOM IC-R8500 receiver

TK500 - Open source software designed for the Yaesu VR-500 receiver.

CB Radio & PMR 466 Docs - Documentation (manuals, schematics diagram, ...) for CB and PMR 446 radio's